Web 2.0 and "The Cloud" in the biology classroom

• N. Sivasothi

• delicious.com/sivasothi/buzzed2009

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Role of tools

• Engage/Enhance

• Excite/Explore

• ExpressRelated talk later...

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Basic tools

• HTML (90’s)

• Mailing lists (1998)Blogs (2003)

• platform independent, web-basedWeb2.0 (2005)Internet apps (2007)

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Painful...

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Painless!

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Bonus! - Summary of response

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Enhancing delivery

• Delicious.com (2003)

• Flickr.com (2004)

• Youtube.com (2005)

Not new...

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Delicious

Folksonomic bookmarking (2003)

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http://delicious.com/sivasothi/batangkali

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http://delicious.com/sivasothi/lsm3261

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http://delicious.com/sivasothi/echolocation

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Popular booksmarks for “echolocation”based on all delicious users

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Ben Underwood

• Lost eyes to cancer, aged 2

• Mother learns of his ability to perceive surroundings, aged 5; now aged 16

• Echolocates

• 2006 - People magazine, CBS news, “Extraordinary People” tv series, Youtube, Oprah, etc.

slate.com

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Human Echolocation

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Flickr

Folksonomic image platform (2004)

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Community resourcescan enhance education

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Camouflage inPeacock Flounders

Kelley Kuhlmanhttp://flickr.com/photos/paperglyphs/

2315279189/

Acknowledge contributor!

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José Eduardo Silvahttp://flickr.com/photos/

97968921@N00/1767585490/

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Alexander Yateshttp://flickr.com/photos/

alex_and_terhi/2178306820/

Henry & Tersiahttp://flickr.com/photos/

69919391@N00/2778741446/?

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Rodrigo Salahttp://flickr.com/photos/rodrigosala/2459314107/

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William Daltonhttp://flickr.com/photos/

bovinacowboy/469864374/

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Licensingwrite to contributor

or already granted (creative commons)

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Related talk later...

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Comment to encourage!An expressive audience member.

Directinteraction

cf. passive (tags)

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Searching(old skill)

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http://flickr.com/photos/tags/catsinsink

How to search?

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http://flickr.com/photos/tags/catinsink

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ddelph2http://flickr.com/photos/

62015716@N00/616741695/

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YouTube or Google Video

Folksonomic video platform (2005)

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Indo-Malayan mimic octopusThaumoctopus mimicus

http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=260Norman MD, Finn J, Tregenza T (2001) Dynamic mimicry in an Indo-Malayan octopus. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 268(1478):1755-1758.

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Enhancing expression

• Blogging

• Google Apps

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Blogging

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Push or pull?

• Read the blog or

• send the email?

• Or both (archive + push).

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Digression

Student rephrases question

Having thought out query, a

comprehensive answer is provided

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LSM1303 Animal Behaviour Student Blog

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Data sharing with Google Apps

LSM3251 Ecology

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Google Docs

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Group Data

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Online lamentation!

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Honours proposal

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Life skills, Old skills

Beyond the subject matter

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Role of tools

Engage, excite, expressActive citizen, science communication

http://delicious.com/sivasothi/buzzed2009

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Acknowledgements

• Kenneth Pinto, CIT, NUS, for the invitation and discussion of content.

• The community of contributors to online content on Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc who have helped to enhance teaching.

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